It says that it is an age-progressed photo right underneath the caption. That is not a current photo of the boy found today.Missing Boy Possibly Found After 8 Years | PatchPM
There is a picture in this article. The smile and the eyes. I hope and pray it is him. And if so Thank Gos!
It's hard to say how these men got a hold of him, but I'm quite certain they haven't had him for all of this time. More than likely he got caught up in a human trafficking ring, which is how he ended up in Ohio. That could happen if the people hiding him orginally died, sold him, or couldn't go to the police when he was taken. All along there was speculation that his mother gave him to an Amish family. While that may sound like a good life to her at the time, it is a form of slavery for kids. Amish would take in the kid as a farm hand.I hope it is him, but I am very skeptical. His (admittedly insane) mother said she had given him to someone. So why would he have been kidnapped by two men? Even if Amy was completely off the deep end, I find it hard to believe that she would have found two men to fake a kidnapping and then hold Timmothy hostage for seven years. There was NO evidence that Amy ever abused Timmothy, so it would be way out there to put him through all of this.
I still believe Timmothy was murdered by his mom before she committed suicide. IF she didn't kill him, then he would likely be with a family, perhaps in the Amish community.
In the article i posted it said the father is alive and remarried.
I think the picture you are seeing is an age progressed one.
They haven't released any pictures of the teen who was found to my knowledge.
JMO
Wow. Have to say I'm skeptical.
Sorry for Timothy's relatives and esp. the father if it's not him.
Also, if it IS Timothy... I'd want him checked out by psych. dr's before having him come to live with me.
Sorry if that sounds harsh.
It's just that we don't know what he's been subjected to , and what he's like now as a person.
This isn't the same little boy who vanished years ago..
But it's great if it's him because there can be closure and maybe reconciliation after a while !
Cautiously optimistic.
In the article i posted it said the father is alive and remarried.
It's hard to say how these men got a hold of him, but I'm quite certain they haven't had him for all of this time. More than likely he got caught up in a human trafficking ring, which is how he ended up in Ohio. That could happen if the people hiding him orginally died, sold him, or couldn't go to the police when he was taken. All along there was speculation that his mother gave him to an Amish family. While that may sound like a good life to her at the time, it is a form of slavery for kids. Amish would take in the kid as a farm hand.
Way back when, my grandfather was given up by his mother and put on an orphan train. The kids would be marched out to the train platform and locals could come and see them and start the legal adoption process right here in the US in the 1920s or 30s. My grandfather was lucky enough to be adopted by a loving family in western PA, but they took him in to help work their farm. I'm not sure how Amy would have found out about something like this in the 2000s, but its possible that she thought she was giving him to a family with a nice farm based on the forensics found on her vehicle.
It makes me sick to think two goons had him the entire time...